Editing Eatontown, New Jersey (section)

==Government==
[[File:80 acres park Eatontown, NJ - panoramio.jpg|thumb|250px|Leon Smock 80 Acre Park]]

===Local government===
Eatontown is governed under the [[Borough (New Jersey)|borough]] form of New Jersey municipal government, one of 218 municipalities (of the 564) statewide that use this form, the most commonly used form of government in the state.<ref>[https://njdatabook.rutgers.edu/sites/njdatabook.rutgers.edu/files/documents/inventory_of_municipal_forms_of_government_in_new_jersey.pdf ''Inventory of Municipal Forms of Government in New Jersey''], [[Rutgers University]] Center for Government Studies, July 1, 2011. Accessed June 1, 2023.</ref> The governing body is comprised of the mayor and the borough council, with all positions elected [[at-large]] on a partisan basis as part of the November general election. The mayor is elected directly by the voters to a four-year term of office. The borough council includes six members elected to serve three-year terms on a staggered basis, with two seats coming up for election each year in a three-year cycle.<ref name=DataBook>''2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book'', [[Rutgers University]] [[Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy]], March 2013, p. 58.</ref> The borough form of government used by Eatontown is a "[[weak mayor]] / strong council" government in which council members act as the legislative body with the mayor presiding at meetings and voting only in the event of a tie. The mayor can veto ordinances subject to an [[veto override|override]] by a two-thirds majority vote of the council. The mayor makes committee and liaison assignments for council members, and most appointments are made by the mayor with the advice and consent of the council.<ref>Cerra, Michael F. [https://www.njlm.org/809/3982/Forms-of-Govt-Magazine-Article "Forms of Government: Everything You've Always Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask"], [[New Jersey State League of Municipalities]], March 2007. Accessed January 1, 2025.</ref><ref>[https://njdatabook.rutgers.edu/sites/njdatabook.rutgers.edu/files/documents/forms_of_municipal_government_in_new_jersey_9220.pdf#page=6 "Forms of Municipal Government in New Jersey"], p. 6. [[Rutgers University]] Center for Government Studies. Accessed June 1, 2023.</ref>

{{As of|2025}}, the mayor of Eatontown is [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] Anthony Talerico Jr., whose term of office ends on December 31, 2026.<ref name=Mayor>[https://www.eatontownnj.com/279/Mayors-Welcome Mayor's Welcome], Borough of Eatontown. Accessed January 27, 2025.</ref> Members of the Borough Council are Council President Virginia M. East (D, 2025), Meir Araman (D, 2025), Candace Faust (D, 2026), Maria Grazia Escalante ([[Republican Party (United States)|R]], 2024), Danielle M. Jones (D, 2026) and Carl Lawson (D, 2027).<ref name=Council>[http://eatontownnj.com/council-contact-info/ Mayor and Council], Borough of Eatontown. Accessed January 27, 2025.</ref><ref>[https://www.eatontownnj.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_01012025-536 Reorganization Meeting Minutes for January 1, 2025], Borough of Eatontown. Accessed January 27, 2025. "Carl Lawson was sworn into Office for a three-year term as Councilmember by Senator Vin Gopal.... Maria Escalante was sworn into Office for a three-year term as Councilmember by Senator Vin Gopal."</ref><ref>[https://www.eatontownnj.com/DocumentCenter/View/1745/2024-Budget 2024 Municipal Data Sheet], Borough of Eatontown. Accessed January 27, 2025.</ref><ref name=Monmouth2024>[https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NJ/Monmouth/122857/web.345435/#/summary November 5, 2024 General Election Official Results], [[Monmouth County, New Jersey]], updated December 16, 2024. Accessed January 1, 2025.</ref><ref name=Monmouth2023>[https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NJ/Monmouth/119047/web.317647/#/summary November 8, 2023 General Election Official Results], [[Monmouth County, New Jersey]], updated January 18, 2024. Accessed January 22, 2024.</ref><ref name=Monmouth2022>[https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NJ/Monmouth/116246/web.307039/#/summary General Election November 8, 2022 Official Results], [[Monmouth County, New Jersey]] Clerk, updated December 27, 2022. Accessed January 1, 2023.</ref>

Jackie Severinsen was appointed to fill the seat expiring in December 2024 that became vacant following the death of Everett D. Lucas in July 2023.<ref>[https://www.eatontowngop.com/eatontown-council-appoints-jackie-severinsen-to-fill-vacant-seat/ Eatontown Council Appoints Jackie Severinsen to Fill Vacant Seat], Eatontown GOP. Accessed December 4, 2024. "The Eatontown Borough Council has elected to appoint Jackie Harris Severinsen to fill the vacant seat left by the untimely passing of Colonel Everett Lucas, sitting councilman from the Borough of Eatontown."</ref> Severinsen served on an interim basis until the November 2023 general election, when Carl Lawson was elected to serve the remainder of the term of office.<ref name=Monmouth2023/>

In January 2019, Democrat Tonya Rivera was selected from a list of three candidates nominated by the Eatontown Democratic committee to fill the seat expiring in December 2020 that had been held by Bridget Harris until she resigned from office the previous month; Rivera served until the November 2019 general election, when voters chose a candidate to fill the balance of the term of office.<ref>Burnett, Coleen. [http://thelinknews.net/2019/02/01/tonya-rivera-is-named-to-eatontown-council/ "Tonya Rivera is named to Eatontown Council"], The Link News, February 1, 2019. Accessed August 27, 2019. "At their January 23 meeting, the Eatontown Borough Council welcomed a brand new member to their chambers — along with just a tiny bit of controversy. The controversy did not come with the swearing in of Democrat Tonya Rivera to fill out the unexpired term of Bridget Harris, who resigned her position on council last December 31."</ref> In April 2019, the Democratic municipal committee selected Gregory Loxton to fill the seat expiring in December 2021 that had been held by Lisa Murphy until she resigned from office in March 2019; Loxton also served until the November 2019 general election, when voters chose a candidate to fill the balance of the term of office.<ref>Giuliano, Kelly. [http://www.centraljersey.com/news/atlantichub/stories/loxton-appointed-to-open-seat-on-eatontown-borough-council/article_e3c3d52c-4c79-5ebf-8580-30440bacb5d7.html "Loxton appointed to open seat on Eatontown Borough Council"], CentralJersey.com, April 30, 2019. Accessed August 27, 2019. "Members of the Eatontown Democratic County Committee have appointed Gregory Loxton to fill a vacancy on the Eatontown Borough Council.... The vacancy on the council existed because Democratic Councilwoman Lisa Murphy, who was elected in November 2018 and joined the governing body in January, resigned from her position on March 13.... Martin said Loxton’s appointment will run through Election Day, Nov. 5, and she said the final two years (2020 and 2021) of the term Murphy won in November 2018 will be on the ballot at that time."</ref> In the November 2019 general election, Republicans were elected to fill the two full three-year terms, a single two-year unexpired term (Joseph Olsavsky) and two one-year unexpired terms (Edwin Palenzuela and Mark Regan).<ref name=Monmouth2019>[https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NJ/Monmouth/98884/web/#/summary General Election November 5, 2019 Official Results], [[Monmouth County, New Jersey]] Clerk, updated December 16, 2019. Accessed January 1, 2020.</ref> The three members elected to unexpired terms took office in November after the results were certified; Palenzuela stepped down from office in December and was repelaced in January 2020 by Hope Corcoran.<ref>Giuliano, Kelly. [https://centraljersey.com/2020/01/03/gonzalez-escalante-corcoran-sworn-in-as-council-members-in-eatontown-2/ "Gonzalez, Escalante, Corcoran sworn in as council members in Eatontown"], CentralJersey.com, January 3, 2020. Accessed March 29, 2020. "Republicans Kevin Gonzalez, Maria Grazia Escalante and Margaret Hope Corcoran have assumed their new roles and started their duties in Eatontown’s municipal government. Gonzalez, Escalante and Corcoran join Democrat Jasmine Story and Republicans Mark Regan Jr. and Joseph Olsavsky on the Borough Council.... Regan is serving a one-year unexpired term. Olsavsky is serving a two-year unexpired term.... After taking their seats on the dais, Gonzalez and Escalante participated in their first roll call vote and helped to appoint Corcoran to fill an existing vacancy on the governing body. Corcoran will serve a one-year unexpired term."</ref><ref>Giuliano, Kelly. [https://centraljersey.com/2019/12/26/palenzuela-vacates-position-on-eatontown-borough-council/ "Palenzuela resigns from seat on Eatontown Borough Council"], CentralJersey.com, December 26, 2019. Accessed March 29, 2020. "Edwin Palenzuela has resigned from his position on the Eatontown Borough Council after serving less than one month in the elected position. He resigned as of Dec. 8."</ref>

===Federal and state representation===
Eatontown is located in [[New Jersey's 4th congressional district]]<ref name=PCR2012>[https://www.nj.gov/state/elections/assets/pdf/2012-congressional-districts/njcd-2011-plan-components-county-mcd.pdf Plan Components Report], [[New Jersey Redistricting Commission]], December 23, 2011. Accessed February 1, 2020.</ref> and is part of [[New Jersey's 11th legislative district|New Jersey's 11th state legislative district]].<ref name=Districts2011>[https://www.nj.gov/state/elections/assets/pdf/2011-legislative-districts/towns-districts.pdf Municipalities Sorted by 2011–2020 Legislative District], [[New Jersey Department of State]]. Accessed February 1, 2020.</ref><ref name=LWV2019>[https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5bae63366fd2b2e5b9f87e5e/5d30f0a94a82c66427e564d2_2019_CitizensGuide.pdf ''2019 New Jersey Citizen's Guide to Government''], New Jersey [[League of Women Voters]]. Accessed October 30, 2019.</ref><ref>[https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/districts/districtnumbers.asp#11 Districts by Number for 2011–2020], [[New Jersey Legislature]]. Accessed January 6, 2013.</ref>

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===Politics===
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As of March 2011, there was a total of 7,669 registered voters in Eatontown, of whom 2,037 (26.6%) were registered as [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]], 1,490 (19.4%) were registered as [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]] and 4,140 (54.0%) were registered as [[Unaffiliated (New Jersey)|Unaffiliated]]. There were 2 voters registered as [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarians]] or [[Green Party (United States)|Greens]].<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/election-results/2011-monmouth-co-summary-report.pdf Voter Registration Summary – Monmouth], [[New Jersey Department of State]] Division of Elections, March 23, 2011. Accessed December 3, 2012.</ref>

In the [[United States presidential election in New Jersey, 2012|2012 presidential election]], Democrat [[Barack Obama]] received 54.4% of the vote (2,887 cast), ahead of Republican [[Mitt Romney]] with 44.2% (2,344 votes), and other candidates with 1.4% (74 votes), among the 5,349 ballots cast by the borough's 8,184 registered voters (44 ballots were [[Spoilt vote|spoiled]]), for a turnout of 65.4%.<ref name=2012Elections>{{cite web |url=http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/2012-results/2012-presidential-monmouth.pdf |title=Presidential General Election Results – November 6, 2012 – Monmouth County |date=March 15, 2013 |publisher=New Jersey Department of Elections |access-date=December 24, 2014}}</ref><ref name=2012VoterReg>{{cite web |url=http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/2012-results/2012-ballotscast-monmouth.pdf |title=Number of Registered Voters and Ballots Cast – November 6, 2012 – General Election Results – Monmouth County|date=March 15, 2013 |publisher=New Jersey Department of Elections |access-date=December 24, 2014}}</ref> In the [[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2013|2013 gubernatorial election]], Republican [[Chris Christie]] received 66.8% of the vote (2,038 cast), ahead of Democrat [[Barbara Buono]] with 31.7% (966 votes), and other candidates with 1.5% (46 votes), among the 3,089 ballots cast by the borough's 8,281 registered voters (39 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 37.3%.<ref name=2013Elections>{{cite web |url=http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/2013-results/2013-general-election-results-governor-monmouth.pdf |title=Governor – Monmouth County |date=January 29, 2014 |publisher=New Jersey Department of Elections |access-date=December 24, 2014}}</ref><ref name=2013VoterReg>{{cite web |url=http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/2013-results/2013-general-election-ballotscast-monmouth.pdf |title=Number of Registered Voters and Ballots Cast – November 5, 2013 – General Election Results – Monmouth County|date=January 29, 2014 |publisher=New Jersey Department of Elections |access-date=December 24, 2014}}</ref>

In 2022 New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy successfully wooed Netflix to buy the empty 292 acre Monmouth Army base. Netflix planned to open a "state-of-the-art" East Coast production facility, transforming a property that had been largely vacant for more than a decade into an economic engine of film production in New Jersey.